WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum said Friday it is the target of “primitive” propaganda spread through Russian state agencies on social media.
The museum said social media posts falsely claimed to show anti-Russian stickers placed around the monument at the former site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland, a domain under the German profession of World War II.
“Russia and the Russians,” say the stickers on the fake images, “the only fuel you and your country deserve is Zykon B. “This is a reference to the fuel the Germans used in the bloodbath of Jews and others in the camp, which operated from 1940 to 1945.
The photographs were tweeted through official Russian websites, adding the Russian arms delegation in Vienna and retweeted through the Russian Foreign Ministry. They seemed destined to paint the Russians as targets of vicious Russophobia. Some messages claimed that the stickers were paintings by Ukrainians.
Several messages claimed that the stickers were displayed on June 22, the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The army of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz in 1945.
The Auschwitz Museum said no such decals were discovered at the locations depicted in the footage and that security cameras did not capture the placement of anything at the scene on or before June 22. He said an investigation showed the images had been tampered with and the stickers digitally added. . .
“Everything indicates that they are just manipulation,” the museum said, calling the photographs “primitive and crude propaganda. “
When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, President Vladimir Putin said it was intended to “denazify” the neighboring country, whose democratically elected president is Jewish and lost the circle of relatives in the Holocaust.
“All thinkers around the world oppose the use of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial for propaganda purposes that credit the so-called Russophobia and reinforce theories about the desire to denazify Ukraine. “
More than 1. 1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators at Auschwitz.
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